Tony Bartelme Explained

Tony Bartelme
Birth Place:	Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Occupation:	Journalist, Author

Tony Bartelme, an American journalist and author, is the senior projects reporter for The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina.^[1] He has been a finalist for four Pulitzer Prizes.^[2]

Biography

Bartelme was born in 1963, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His father, Joe Bartelme, was an executive with NBC News until his death in 1991.^[3] Bartelme's mother, Margaret, is a teacher. Bartelme's son, Luke, played the character "TJ" on Lifetime's drama "Army Wives" for four seasons.^[4]

Bartelme began his journalism career at The Greenville (South Carolina) News-Piedmont after earning a bachelor of science degree in 1984 from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.^{[5] [6]} He has been with The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina, since 1990.

While with The Post and Courier, Bartelme was recognized for combining investigative reporting with magazine-style narratives on complex issues ranging from pension abuse^[7] to toxic algae blooms.^[8] In 2018, judges for the Society of Environmental Journalists award for beat reporting, said his “skill is evident as he dives deep time and again to deliver deftly-crafted, enterprising features on serious topics.”^[9]

Awards

• In 2021, Columbia Journalism School awarded Bartelme its John Chancellor Award for Journalism Excellence, an honor presented to a journalist for his or her cumulative accomplishments.^[10] Judges cited a career of ground-breaking environmental and investigative stories that stretched the limits of what local newspapers offer their readers.^[11]
• In 2020, Bartelme was part of a team of reporters that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for a climate change project called Rising Waters.^[12]
• In 2019, Bartelme won the inaugural Victor K. McElheny Knight Science Journalism Award for a story about climate change and the Gulf Stream.^[13]
• In 2018, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Feature business journalism^[14] and American Society of News Editors Deborah Howell Award for a story about the demise of the Piggly Wiggly Carolina grocery chain.^[7]
• In 2017, the American Geophysical Union awarded Bartelme its Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for "Every Other Breath," a series about climate change issues.^{[15] [16]}
• In 2017, the National Press Foundation awarded its Technology in Journalism Award for "Chasing Carbon," a story that was part of the "Every Other Breath" series.^[17]
• In 2016, Bartelme was part of a reporting team that won a Scripps Howard Foundation award for community journalism about an investigation into police shootings in South Carolina.^[18]
• In 2016, Bartelme was a member of a reporting team that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the breaking news reporting category for stories about the fatal shooting of Walter Scott.^[19]
• In 2013, Bartelme's series about high insurance rates was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in explanatory writing and winner of the Sigma Delta Chi Award for non-deadline reporting for papers with circulations between 50,000 and 150,000.^{[20] [21]}
• In 2011, Bartelme was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for in Feature Writing, for his series about a neurosurgeon's work to teach brain surgery in Tanzania.^[22]
• In 2011, Bartelme was awarded a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University.^[23]
• In 2009, Bartelme won the National Press Association's Stokes Award for Best Energy Writing.^[24]
• In 2008, Bartelme won the Gerald Loeb Award for Small Newspapers for a story about the effect of China's growth on local economies.^{[25] [26]}
• Bartelme won the 2007 Associated Press Managing Editors award for international perspective for newspapers under 150,000 circulation.^[27] Bartelme has won more than 50 South Carolina Press Association Awards, including Journalist of the Year.^[28]

Author

Bartelme has written or co-written four books:

• A Surgeon in the Village: An American Doctor Teaches Brain Surgery in Africa, 2017, Beacon Press. Title in Canada: Send Forth the Healing Sun: The Unexpected True Story About Teaching Brain Surgery in the African Bush, 2016, HarperCollins/Canada.^[29]
• Second Chance: The Mark Sanford Story, 2013.^[30]
• The Bridge Builders and Charleston's Grand New Span, with Jessica VanEgeren, 2005.
• Into the Wind: The story of the world's longest race, with Brian Hicks, 1999.^[31]

He wrote the screenplay for Born to the Wind, a documentary narrated by Peter Fonda on the 1998-1999 Around Alone sailing race. The documentary won a Telly and Moscow Festival Special Award.^[32]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tony Bartelme. 2020-10-02. Pulitzer Center. en.
2. Web site: Courier. Post and. User. 2020-10-02. Post and Courier. en.
3. News: 1991-09-06. Joe Bartelme, 61, Dies; Ex-NBC News Official. en-US. The New York Times. 2020-10-02. 0362-4331.
4. Web site: Luke Bartelme. 2020-10-02. IMDb.
5. Web site: Writers - Tony Bartelme. 2020-10-02. Showcase. en-US.
6. Web site: Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Finalist Tony Bartelme Mar. 24 "A Surgeon in the Village". 2020-10-02. BBB Author Series.
7. Web site: NLA. 2020-10-02. members.newsleaders.org.
8. Web site: Montgomery. David R.. 2018-07-04. Winners: SEJ 17th Annual Awards for Reporting on the Environment. 2020-10-02. SEJ. en.
9. Web site: P&C reporter wins national award for stories about algae, flooding and power company abuses. 2020-10-02. Post and Courier. en.
10. Web site: Tony Bartelme, the Post and Courier Senior Projects Reporter, Wins Prestigious 2021 John Chancellor Award | Columbia Journalism School.
11. Web site: Tony Bartelme (BSJ84) – Medill Magazine .
12. News: Post and Courier staff named Pulitzer Prize finalist for series on flooding. Post and Courier.
13. Web site: Gulf Stream series wins Knight Science Journalism Program's Inaugural Victor K. McElheny Award. 2020-10-02. MIT News Massachusetts Institute of Technology. en.
14. Web site: UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2018 Gerald Loeb Award Winners . June 25, 2018 . PR Newswire . January 31, 2019.
15. Web site: AGU honors journalists Rich Monastersky, Tony Bartelme and Courtney Humphries. 2020-10-02. EurekAlert!. en.
16. Web site: Saga - Post and Courier. 2020-10-02. data.postandcourier.com.
17. Web site: Best of 2017: Award-Winning Journalism Worthy of Your Time. 2020-10-02. National Press Foundation. en-US.
18. Web site: 2016-03-08. 2015 Scripps Howard Award winners announced. 2020-10-02. Scripps. en.
19. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes. The 2016 Pulitzer Prizes. 2020-10-02. www.pulitzer.org. en.
20. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes. 2013 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism. 2020-10-02. www.pulitzer.org. en.
21. Web site: Sigma Delta Chi Awards - Society of Professional Journalists. 2020-10-02. www.spj.org.
22. Web site: The Pulitzer Prizes. 2011 Pulitzer Prizes Journalism. 2020-10-02. www.pulitzer.org. en.
23. Web site: Nieman Foundation For Journalism At Harvard Announces 2011 Nieman Fellows. 2020-10-02. en-US.
24. Web site: Tony Bartelme. 2020-10-02. National Press Foundation. en-US.
25. N.Y. Times wins 3 Loeb Awards; Sloan gets his 7th, by Joseph Altman, Associated Press, Jun 30, 2008
26. Web site: 2008 Gerald Loeb Award Winners Announced by UCLA Anderson School of Management . October 28, 2011 . . February 1, 2019.
27. Web site: Washington Post, Birmingham News among newspaper award winners - APME - Associated Press Media Editors. 2020-10-02. www.apme.com.
28. Web site: Charleston.net - Special Reports - the China Effect. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20081129165903/http://newsfiles.charleston.net/SpecialReports/china.html. 2008-11-29. 2009-04-10.
29. Web site: Send Forth The Healing Sun - Tony Bartelme - Paperback. 2020-10-02. HarperCollins Canada. en-US.
30. Web site: Evening Post Books. Second Chance: The Mark Sanford Story.
31. Web site: Evening Post Books. Into the Wind: Around Alone: The Story of The World's Longest Race.
32. http://www.paladventurevideos.com/BTTW.htm